My Son Told Me Not to Come for Christmas but Two Days Later My Phone Would Not Stop Ringing

the way I do when I am speaking to her, which is more often than most people would consider rational and which I have decided I do not care about either way.

Michael put his fork down after a while and looked at me across the table. “I’m going to pay you back,” he said. “Every dollar. It’ll take longer than I’d like. But I’m keeping a ledger.”

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